"Subscript from Müller to Mohr's Letter (No. 177)"

He recommends Katsenke over Taps as a place for a European station partly on the grounds that the people in that district have shown themselves not very receptive to the gospel though it is also true that though they are only 24 hours away from Worawora they have not been much visited by missionaries. Considering the quantitative situation (how much work there is to be done in each area) Müller finds Tapa strongly to be recommended. Mohr visited 36 Buem towns, Clerk numbers the Krakye towns at 24 towns large and small, Mischlisch numbers Akebu - which would fall to the Buem area - at 17-18. This is therefore an area with the same sort of prospects as Akim, when one considers that Pae must also be taken into account, and the villages on the west bank of the Volta in the latitude of Krakye. An informal training could be given in Tapa in Twi for people expected to work for the mission. He thinks that Mohr has underestimated the amount of contact between the non-Twi speaking peoples of this area and the Twi areas - for example he heard in Nkonya that the young men travel as far as the Fante coast to find work. So has he underestimated the need for some regular institution for preparing teachers and catechists in the Volta region - people will only with difficulty allow their children to go to Akropong from Anum, which makes the suggestion of Begoro impracticable. Nevertheless he agrees a full middle school is unnecessary - simply a 7th and 8th year class at Anum would serve.

25.11.1896

25.11.1896

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